January 16, 201312 yr Author comment_5528311 The Undertaker's first television appearance. Brother Love managing him and the roses being spread over the jobber after the match are a creepy touch. They definitely made him seem scary from the very beginning.
February 7, 201312 yr comment_5533848 The Update segment from a week or two earlier emphasized the "Kane" part more than the Undertaker part, oddly enough. Andre the Giant's ill-fated appearance as a participant in the Royal Rumble is mentioned--God knows how that would have gone.
February 10, 201312 yr comment_5534408 First squash for the Taker. He did have a presence even in this early going.
February 12, 201312 yr comment_5534948 It’s got to be Cain! Undertaker hasn’t got into his tattoo faze yet. Does the rope walk and a Tombstone finishes it.
March 30, 201510 yr comment_5662100 My favorite part of this was Honky ducking the question of how he'd try to stop Taker in the Royal Rumble. He finally answers, "A little song-and-dance routine", which is so typical of him. Deep down, he has no chance if Taker gets his hands on him and he knows it. Brother Love is quite effective here as a mouthpiece, and I'm left to wonder again how much better he would have gotten if they hadn't signed Percy and developed Paul Bearer instead. I must have missed the roses being spread over Mancini's body; I know there was no mention of it on commentary. Andre/Taker would have been a dream faceoff in the Rumble, however brief it may have ended up. In fact, Taker could have made a huge name for himself by eliminating Andre singlehandedly. I would have posted the results from the Portland, Maine card on December 27 that was mentioned in the insert, but Graham doesn't list them. The known matches were Kerry/DiBiase, Bossman/Heenan, LOD/Orients, Rockers/Power and Glory, and Jake/Martel. The other four wrestlers he mentions are Savage, Snuka, Tony Atlas (as Saba Simba), and Shane Douglas. My guess at matchups is Snuka/Savage and Atlas/Douglas, with Shane playing the heel in the latter. Oddly enough, a lot of the guys on this card are working in Auburn Hills, Michigan on the same day, and there's no mention of the Portland card being a matinee. (In case you're wondering, December 27, 1990 was a Thursday.)
August 21, 20178 yr comment_5811580 Good to know where the "Kane" thing they used years later came from anyway.
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